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Egypt 100 Days Later: Post-Mubarak Cairo Faces Uphill Transition, Sober Realities (PHOTOS)

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Posted: 05/27/11 05:32 PM ET

The nation's anti-government demonstrations sparked a revolution that was cheered by millions across the globe and continues to inspire embattled rebels in Libya, Syria as part of the "Arab Spring."

But more than three months after dramatic civil protests toppled a reviled president's regime, the "new" Egypt faces an entirely different set of problems, from economic stagnation to religious tensions.

Food prices have spiraled out of control, youth unemployment hovers at a staggering 30 percent and a once-burgeoning tourism market has yet to return to its pre-uprising levels. As the Associated Press now reports, protesters have returned to Tahrir Square, the focal point for most of the demonstrations, for what has been deemed a "second revolution," calling for Egypt's military rulers to speed up the pace of democratic reforms in a country that is still charting its political future.

"The economy is looking pretty dismal right now," Magda Kandil, the director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, tells GlobalPost. "Unemployment and an unbalanced distribution of wealth are what fed into the frustration that ultimately led to the revolution. But when you look at what the revolution wanted to accomplish, it now seems like things have actually gotten worse."

View photos of a battle-scarred Egypt 100 days after Hosni Mubarak's fall here:

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The nation's anti-government demonstrations sparked a revolution that was cheered by millions across the globe and continues to inspire embattled rebels in Libya, Syria as part of the "Arab Spring." ...
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0 minute ago (9:12 AM)
Hopefully full rights for women and zero religious involvemen­t in the government­. (If only the GOP over here could abide by those guidelines as well.)
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PoliticallyAffiliated
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
7 hours ago (2:22 AM)
Going to be a scary/inte­resting time to move over there.
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GeorgeP922
8 hours ago (1:29 AM)
This photo diary needs some help.

Im an aethist so I aint no expert, but all these photos are shot in the christian part of town.

What about the secular and muslim parts, I am sure there are more than three neihborhoo­d in Cairo.
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Enimal57
19 hours ago (2:34 PM)
!00 Days after? Revolution­s are measured in years and decades. Read the history of revolution­s.
06:17 AM on 5/30/2011
Overpopula­tion is a major cause of Egypt's problems.
04:00 AM on 5/30/2011
100 days!
wow doesn't time fly when you are having fun?
11:08 PM on 5/29/2011
Food prices rising sharply. Soaring unemployme­nt, particular­ly amonmg young citizens.
Sound familiar?

Pres.Obama just pledged a lot of $$$ to help Egypt?
When is he going to help us?
06:22 AM on 5/30/2011
The best way, I find, is to help ourselves, because in the end we only have ourselves to secure our futures.

Seething overpopula­tion, diminishin­g resources, and unemployme­nt are fodder for terrorist attacks on America and Americans. Ignore them at America's peril.
01:31 PM on 5/29/2011
I'm sorry to see this. I hope that Egypt will not follow the "easy" path of allowing into power fundamenta­lists who will tell the people what to think and do and who likely would refocus the public's attention away from their own difficulti­es by fomenting trouble with an outside "enemy," Israel. Such actions only would make the situation far worse for everyone, including the Egyptians themselves­, than they were even under Mubarak.
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MelissaGoldman
don't diss the juju
12:58 PM on 5/29/2011
I knew it was only a matter of time before these people were begging for Mubarak to come back. It's kind of like starting wars with Israel that you can't win...you end up paying the price in the end and instead you have people protesting­...protest­ing for what? They got exactly what they bargained for.
12:13 PM on 5/29/2011
Sadly, Mubarak will eventually be replaced with another just like him.
12:58 PM on 5/29/2011
Might be the best thing for them at this point especially if they can get their economy back. Democracy isn't the savior of the world. We don't even have a real Democracy but a Republic because the founders knew the dangers in mob rule.
11:19 PM on 5/29/2011
The republic is going, going, gone. We look more like a European socialist democracy with each passing day. And, you're right, a democracy is not good. But, it's the change we voted for in 2008 -- we're in so deep, we can't go back to being a republic. Get used to it!
04:02 AM on 5/30/2011
real democracy
where is that?
in usa?
not according to what happened with the first bush win
if there is not democracy in usa, there is no democracy anywhere.
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MarcEdward
likes all cats more than most people
08:24 PM on 5/29/2011
Why is everybody so pessimisti­c? People are learning how to form political parties, trying to figure out what they want. Americans really lack imaginatio­n - it's not a Jeffersoni­an democracy already, so it will be a dictatorsh­ip.
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TXfemmom
Grandma with eye on the future
11:56 AM on 5/29/2011
The Egyptians really thought that being free of Mubarak would mean instant prosperity and a total change in life overnight. When I watched and listened during that time I wondered what woudl happen when the delight cleared and they realized that tourists would not return for a very long time, and that was and is going to be a large portion of their revenue and job area. With the government being in flux investment is not going to flow in and they have a young population far greater than they are going to have the potential to employ with good jobs, Mubarak being gone or not. Reports are that crime has risen considerab­ly because the police are no longer feared and that is going to keep out tourism and investment as well. The problems of Egypt are so deeply seated that it would take a real Renaissanc­e in order for them to be reversed and it remains a deeply conservati­ve country religiousl­y which may well prevent that Renaissanc­e of thinking and innovation in order to pull it out of its' duldrums.
11:14 PM on 5/29/2011
Self-gover­nment isn't easy. Egypt doesn't have anyone to guide them...and they can't use the United States as an example -- we've already switched to being a socialist democracy. Not a great example to follow.
11:39 AM on 5/29/2011
Other than running water and electricit­y, Egypt has not advanced in the last 2000 years. When I was there, I was appalled at the living conditions and standard of living for a city it's size in the 21st century.
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MarcEdward
likes all cats more than most people
08:26 PM on 5/29/2011
Actually the advanced quite a bit, but they have been invaded, colonized, invaded again by people who destroyed the irrigation systems, ruled by crazy people than invaded by the European powers over and over.
11:34 AM on 5/29/2011
I wonder whether the Arab Spring in Egypt will be able to eliminate the widespread practice of female genital mutilation that is forced onto young girls.
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MarcEdward
likes all cats more than most people
08:26 PM on 5/29/2011
That practice is common in a lot of African and parts of the Middle East, so I don't see what it has to do with Egypt. In the USE they can't wipe out MGM either. Tradition is strong.
15 hours ago (5:54 PM)
The practice although despicable is not that common anymore. Even facial tribal marks are going away.
09:04 AM on 5/29/2011
It is very easy to see who the lemmings are.Spelli­ng Iraq with a k or muslims with an o.It is not about being illiterate but being uninformed and listening to the wrong person.The­re is nothing wrong with voicing your opinion.Bu­t you should only voice it based upon facts that you have researched­,There are a crapload of earbenders out there.And most of them are lost to.It is amazing what I read in some of these posts.Espe­cially while these people are on a computer and can access vasts amounts of informatio­n but choose to follow others because of political party hatred,rac­ial hatred or just flatout ignorance.
12:47 PM on 5/29/2011
There is a lot of anger towards muslims because of what they did to us and what they do to Israel and to each other. Just about every war going on in the world today, the muslims are behind it. I don't know how you can blame the average person for being upset with them. And, yes I know it's not every muslim, so please don't even go there.
05:49 PM on 5/29/2011
you seem to know so much about war, for your informatio­n just about every war going on in the world today has the stamp of made in the good old USA stamped all over it, its people like you who have no concept of reality that are so bigoted in what you have to say. You have to ask your own government for the truth about 9/11, and as for the situation in Israel, take your blinkers off and see the ghettos created by this so called democratic state of Israel
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dudekabob
Quick! Hand me my purse.
02:07 AM on 5/29/2011
At the start of the uprising, Mubarak liberated all the prisons and then armed the inmates. It's like he opened a can of worms and then left town. I think until that little "problem" is solved, not many tourists are interested in visiting ancient tombs, fearful of becoming occupants of new ones. Were I brave, I'd take a chance and go. The bargins must be terrific!